HOW TO: Write to NTFS Drives in Ubuntu

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Ubuntu by default can mount NTFS drives but does not support writing to them. However, there is a driver in the universal repositories called ntfs-3g which allows you to mount NTFS drives as well as write to them – making dual-booting Windows even sweeter:

“sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g ntfs-config”

ntfs-3g is the driver that lets you write to NTFS drives, where ntfs-config is the GUI tool which should appear under Applications > System Tools > NTFS Configuration Tool that allows you to select if you want an internal or external device to be writeable.

@ukickey
The default installed driver on Ubuntu 7.04 is the Linux-NTFS release. Which has no write capabilities by default.
ntfs-3g is a branch of the later that evolved faster to the goal of being able to safely write to a NTFS partition. The Linux-NTFS driver had many goals to concentrate only on that one. Now work done on ntfs-3g are being merge back to Linux-NTFS.